Diego Luna

My historical figure was Diego Rivera. He was born in Guanajuato, Mexico in 1886. Although he traveled to different places for his profession of painting and muralisting, his birth and death place was in Mexico, his home country. Diego’s early life consisted of school, traveling, and drawing. He was inspired by the artist Jose Posada. At the age of ten, Diego attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City. He then traveled to Europe at the age of twenty-one, where he was able to work

Yolanda López was born in 1942 and raised in San Diego, California. A third generation Chicana, she knew from a very young age that she wanted to make art. Over the years she’s created plenty of it. Lopez has produced films, painted, done printmaking, and educated others. Yolanda struggled early, repeating 1st grade more than once due to the fact that she did not speak English. Despite these struggles, she felt a connection to art in her classrooms, and began using whatever she could get her

Kahlo. This baby, that is attached to Kahlo by an umbilical cord, represents the child that she had she always wished for. She had stated that she wanted to have a son with her husband, Diego, and they would call him ‘Dieguito’. Kahlo has said that the purple orchid in the bottom of the composition was a gift from Diego. Orchids were also a symbol of fertility and virility in ancient Greece. The snail in the top right alludes to the slow and painful process of the miscarriage itself. The harsh metal

its original context and using it to show new or different meanings that may have not been shown or expressed in the original work. The original work is by Diego Velazquez’ ‘Portrait of Innocent X’ (1650) and is a portrait of Pope Innocent X. The appropriation is by Francis Bacon, ‘Study after Velazquez’ Portrait of Innocent X’ (1953). Diego Velazquez was a royal painter to the court of Spanish King Phillip IV. Velazquez visited Italy between 1649 and 1651 and was commissioned by the Pope, also known

Psychoanalysis was founded by Sigmund Freud to make the unconscious conscious. His aim was to gain insight into the unconscious and repressed thoughts, feelings and motivations of people in order to help them understand. Freud focused on bringing the repressed internal conflict (such as development issues or trauma) to a conscious place where the person can easily deal with it. Art is one way in which the individual can express his deepest thoughts by unravelling one’s inner feelings, making them

Of course, the analysis of Michel Foucault didn’t stay unnoticeable. In fact his work stirred up all sorts of discussions. The author was accused of misreading the artwork, reducing the role of Velasquez as a creator of Las Meninas and as a historical figure, imposing artificial meaning that is not there, oversimplifying the painting and so on. In short, Foucault’s interpretation located outside of traditional art historical approach and therefore didn’t seem legit for many scholars. One of the main

Las Meninas (after cleaning), 10 ft. 7 in. × 9 ft. ½ in. (3.23 × 2.76 m), in Museo del Prado, Madrid- Spain is an oil on canvas which is done by the main Baroque artist in the seventeenth century, counter-reformation, Diego Velázquez(1599–1660). This work is not just greeting for the artist’s genius as a painter, but at the same time is about the very specialty of painting. This Velázquez’s unqualified masterpiece is monumental which is painted on 1656. The complex works and composition raise questions

Artist 1: Frida Kahlo Artist 2: Pablo Picasso Introduction During the generation artist have always evolved and practiced the art of portraiture coming from different times in history and also interpreting their cultural experience into their art works, artist Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo both reconnoitering portraiture as a way of creating their type of art, Frida Kahlo was born in Magdalena Carmen on the 6th of July 1906 one of Mexico’s finest artist

In the fiberglass sculpture, Cruzando El Río Bravo, created by Luis Jiménez in 1989, Jiménez, a Texas native, depicts and tributes the story of his grandfather, grandmother, and father crossing the Mexico and Texas border illegally. In contrast, the sculpture San José y el Niño, which was created in Guatemala in the 18th century by an unknown artist, was constructed as a traditional wooden sculpture of St. Joseph holding the Christ Child. In both sculptures, the artists carry out different approaches

The two paintings I chose for this question were A self portrait with cropped hair by Frida Kahlo, and Wrist Corsage by Lisa Yuskavage. They both intrigue me because they are both making bold statements on the female appearance and what it means to be a female and what society views as feminine. In Kahlo’s painting, she pictured herself in a chair having cut off all of her hair and wearing her husband’s suit instead of her usual blouse and skirt getup. This was painted at a time when she and her